Two dead and 19 taken to hospital after falling ill in 'sweatbox' at Arizona spiritual retreat

daily mail ^ | 10th October 2009 | Daily mail

[Charlespg]

Two people died and an estimated 19 others were taken to hospital after being overcome while sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge at an at a spiritual retreat in Arizona. The lodge at the Sedona resort which is meant to provide spiritual cleansing is now the centre of a police investigation. In all, 21 of the 64 people crowded inside the sweat lodge on Thursday evening for the two-hour session received medical care.

[Charlespg]

too much Patchouli oil perhaps?

place looks like a giant hefty bag

[~Peter]

Peyote, I’d say.

[NewCenturions]

If sweating is the key to spiritual cleansing, come to Tennessee in summer. It’s free.

[jessduntno]

I’m betting there were no conservatives lost...

[magslinger]

Using treated lumber for firewood?

[I see my hands]

These new age freaks are disgusting wastes of bio mass. You ask for tea in my house and you get the bum's rush posthaste.

[armymarinemom]

The world with two fewer Rainbow people.

[Jagman]

Indian Elder #1: That’s not a well, it’s the eye of the Holy Serpent Mound on which you’re standing.

Settler #2: It’s a beaut!

Indian Elder #2: No, it’s a mound.

[larryjohnson]

Now I do like a sauna.

[LukeL]

*shaking head in disgust*

[MizSterious]

Hey! Teas is NOT “new age.” It’s been a tradition in my family since before this country was even formed.

[tet68]

Welcome to the Stinking Desert National Indian monument
and Cobalt testing range.

[mylife]

Some participants told detectives they paid up to $9,000 for the event.

I'm in the wrong business.

[Wisconsinlady]

“retreat that began Oct. 3 and that promised to “absolutely change your life.”

Guess the guy wasn’t lying...

[Ditter]

I can’t see myself crawling into a small hot damp space with 63 other people, nope, it’s just not going to happen.

[I see my hands]

I'd have tossed your forebears out on their cozies.

[MizSterious]

Same here. Although I once had to use public transportation a lot—not too different I guess. ;)

[MizSterious]

Then you wouldn’t have had a country. Some of them were responsible for creating this country.

[GnuHere]

I’m guessing they should have consulted some Native Americans on the design issues...

[jsh3180]

>>Using treated lumber for firewood?

Twent or so years ago, a contractor I knew gave a couple of big boxes of scrap wood to the Boy Scouts to use in their campfires. They used it at a big jamboree and seven or eight kids got real sick from breathing the smoke from pressure treated lumber. This was back in the day when PT lumber had some nasty stuff in it, arsenic among other things. Said contractor was not a real bright guy and he ended up bankrupt not much longer after that incident.